Books The Hill of Dreams Free Download

Declare Containing Books The Hill of Dreams

Title	:	The Hill of Dreams
Author	:	Arthur Machen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 204 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2002 by Borgo Press (first published 1907)
Categories	:	Horror. Fantasy. Fiction. Classics. Weird Fiction. Gothic

The Hill of Dreams

Arthur Machen

Paperback | Pages: 204 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 845 Users | 100 Reviews

Narration Conducive To Books The Hill of Dreams

Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through something degenerate in his own nature. He thinks of the damning thing inside him as a faun. He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real. The portrait of a doomed artist: a man not unlike Machen himself.

Specify Books To The Hill of Dreams

Original Title:	The Hill of Dreams
ISBN:	1587155303 (ISBN13: 9781587155307)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lucian Taylor
Setting:	Caermaen, Wales(United Kingdom) London, England(United Kingdom)

Rating Containing Books The Hill of Dreams

Ratings: 3.9 From 845 Users | 100 Reviews

Evaluate Containing Books The Hill of Dreams

A dark, disturbing, and at times glorious read about the imagination, isolation, and the creative impulse which has the power to both make and unmake.

Quite possibly one of the greatest books I have ever read, and certainly Machens greatest achievement. The imagery is breathtaking and some passages positively glimmer with sheer decadent ecstacy. I would definately recommend, to everyone, ever!

This book is like the story of my life, depressingly enough. Particularly from page 208 onwards. The story of a young writer (no doubt a somewhat autobiographical sketch of Machen himself), struggling to craft the perfect masterpiece, after experiencing a vision in the ruins of an old Roman fort. Lucian is more enamored of fantasy than reality - he doesn't care about anything else. Practicality be damned! 'The Hill Of Dreams' follows his trajectory from a fresh-faced, starry-eyed dreamer to a

This a lyrical yet sad book of a poor young man who dreams of using words to paint sound pictures that stir the heart and soul of all who read them. Villified by his peers for being poor, different and dreamy he increasingly descends into the finer reality inside his head, where Greeks, Romans, Alchemists and Druids all vie for space, living life in a grand style. Soon the line between the world inside his head and the world without get ever more blurred as reality takes a back seat to beauty,

Less the Hallowe'en horror I set out to read than a decadent-era study of the tortured artist (and the mystical and maddening possibilities of nature and Roman ruins) in luscious language. We meet Lucian Taylor in boyhood and see the [semi-autobiographical] difficulties he experiences growing up in a narrow-minded small Welsh town, so he's more obviously sympathetic than his near-contemporaries such as the hero of Hunger, or Charles Strickland of The Moon and Sixpence - whose single-mindedness

This is a gorgeous book appreciated by virtually nobody these days. It's beginning and end prefigure James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, but without the redemption.Machen examines the written word via his protagonist and alter-ego, Lucian Taylor, and comes to the conclusion that his art is worthless or at least failed, but the means by which he reaches this conclusion itself redeem the word.The closest novel to The Hill of Dreams in terms of stark loneliness combined with lush

A great thing he could never do, but he had longed to do a true thing, to imagine sincere and genuine pages.If this is what Machen thinks about writing, its no wonder that what he wrote is wonderfully strange, but a definite wonder that he wrote anything at all. His character in Hill of Dreams is a writer, better than most, dedicated to the truth that writing bares of the world.He is also nuts. Machen writes it in a way that makes you wonder if its real or imagined; after all Machen has written